Day 105 Years of Life and Nothing | Proverbs 10:27-28

Years of Life and Nothing

27 

Fear of the Lord lengthens one’s life,
     but the years of the wicked are cut short.

28 

The hopes of the godly result in happiness,
     but the expectations of the wicked come to nothing.

Verses 27-28

The good man respects God. He will have a long life. He will be happy.

The evil man refuses God’s wisdom. The evil man will die soon. His plans will fail. He will achieve nothing.

These verses are rather general. Some good people die young. Some evil people live long. Solomon is explaining simple principles. More complex explanations are elsewhere in the Bible. We must learn simple principles before we can understand complex explanations.

This is the principle. A good person has a good life. An evil person has a bad life. This principle is enough, for now.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom.

However, fear referred to here is not abject hopeless horror.

Rather, fear of Yahweh is awe, reverence, fear of doing wrong

when wanting to do right. It is how a creature approaches its

Creator. It is to be expected that such a creature who tries to

obey the statutes that were laid down for the creature’s good will

live longer than the wicked who disobey the Creator’s

commandments.

Being in harmony with Creation gives righteous people

joy. Wicked people don’t follow the Creator God and therefore

have no hope for a meaningful life. Theirs is a hopeless existence.

They are in disharmony with Creation, disobeying God’s rules

and perishing as a result.

Contemplate: Do you think of yourself as a righteous

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